On August 14, Wan Qian and Li Gengxi starred in the female crime movie "Rabbit Violence" in major theaters.
Long before it was released in theaters, this cutting-edge female directorial debut had already "gained fame".
It was shortlisted for the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival, the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival, and the 20th New York Asian Film Festival, and received rave reviews after screening.
The strange thing is that after the theater was released, the word of mouth was seriously polarized, some viewers praised the story as emotional, Wan Xi Li Gengxi burst, and some viewers criticized the script as incomplete. Today we will talk about the reasons for this.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >1, stories related to teenage girl crimes</h1>
The story of "Rabbit Violence" takes place in her mother Qu Ting (Wan Qian) and daughter Shui Qing (Li Gengxi). When her daughter Shui Qing was only 1 year old, Qu Ting abandoned her. This reunion is the first time the two have reunited after a gap of 17 years.
The time after the reunion is happy.
Although Qu Ting and Shui Qing have not seen each other for many years, Qu Ting, who has a young mentality, quickly mingles with Shui Qing, and even with Shui Qing's friends.
The crowd sang and danced together, walked through the tunnels in the howling wind, paralyzed the senses with intense alcohol, and enjoyed themselves to the extreme.
But happy times are always short...
Her mother, Qu Ting, is coerced into debt, and Shui Qing, a young girl who fears losing her mother, becomes insane: she plans a kidnapping case for a huge reward and kills her close friends with her own hands.
In the blink of an eye, the cheerful mother-daughter reunion becomes a sad and bitter teenage girl's crime. The sense of dramatic conflict is pulled to the extreme, firmly attracting the audience's attention.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >2, the sadness associated with the broken birth family</h1>
As mentioned earlier, the biggest attraction of "Rabbit Violence" is "teenage girl crime". In order to make a huge amount of money for her mother, who owes a lot of money, Shui Qing calmly plans the kidnapping case and ends the life of her close friend with her own hands.
At first glance, I couldn't accept such a drastic twist, and I couldn't understand why Shui Qing would shout "I'm willing to do anything for you" to her mother, who had only been reunited for a few days, or even commit a criminal act of murder.
Until the follow-up story, Shui Qing's growth experience is gradually presented, the audience sees the aggrieved Shui Qing who grew up in the cold eyes of his father and stepmother, and sees the cowardly Shui Qing who was ridiculed by his classmates for not having a mother but did not dare to resist...
For Shui Qing, her mother Qu Ting is the only light in the dark life——
Teach Shui Qing to dance with her friends, mingle with Shui Qing's friends, and let Shui Qing feel what it's like to be cared for for the first time.
Since then, the figure of her mother Qu Ting has become a figurative element called "redemption", which has become Shui Qing's greatest courage in the face of a broken original family.
Then of course, when the warmth and redemption of the present moment may be taken away, the water blue becomes extreme, producing criminal behavior. It is a thought-provoking social case, but it also exposes the sadness related to the growth of youth under the broken original family.
Judging from the "feelings between mother and daughter" presented in the first half of the story, "Rabbit Violence" is undoubtedly touching and warm. Whether it is the warm light of the warm light color throughout, or the openness and happiness that overflows the screen when Shui Qing and Qu Ting get along, it is delicate to the extreme.
Unfortunately, the film's rhythm division is somewhat unbalanced, and there are too many depictions of mother-daughter emotions, and the "girl crime" section that should be the top priority is hurriedly taken.
Such as the process of his friend Ma Yueyue being kidnapped by Shui Qing.
At first, Shui Qing's target is Jin Xi, who claims to be very rich in the family, and is accidentally replaced by Ma Yueyue. At first, he just wanted to "fake kidnapping", but in the end he killed the killer, and the psychological process was not explained in detail.
Another example is the mutual protection between Shui Qing and Qu Ting.
In this paragraph, the acting skills of Wan Xi and Li Gengxi are explosive, and a few lines will make the audience cry.
Supposedly, it should be a little more ink to depict the "emotion between mother and daughter", but it suddenly stopped. There was a feeling that the story had just begun and was over, so it only scored 6.3 points.
In addition to Shui Qing, Rabbit Violence also has two important girl characters, namely Shui Qing's friends Jin Hee and Ma Yue Yue.
Among them, Shui Qing grew up under the oppression of her stepmother; Jin Xi's parents left home in debt, leaving Jin Xi alone to bear everything that was smashed by the creditor; Ma Yueyue grew up under the care of her father and mother, but still could not escape her father's desire to control domestic violence.
These three young girls represent the different misfortunes brought about by the same mutilated original family.
If the film can delve into this point, the texture of the whole story will be improved again. Unfortunately, the film did not, and even the ending related to Jin Xi and Ma Yueyue was scrawled.
Obviously, the completion of the script is far from enough.
It is understood that "Rabbit Violence" is based on a real case. The reason why the girl in the real case commits the crime is the same as in the movie, but also to protect the mother.
From this point of view, the film has achieved the ultimate restoration. Construct the image of Shui Qing, a young girl who is "extremely dependent on her mother and afraid of losing her salvation", from which she presents the harm of the broken original family to Shui Qing.
However, the criticism is that the father of the deceased in the real case did not have the same tendency to domestic violence as Ma Yueyue's biological father in the film. On the contrary, in the real case, the deceased loved his daughter very much.
It can be understood that the appropriate adaptation of real-life cases is to better present artistic effects, but is it really appropriate to defame the victim's father in real cases?
Logically, many viewers gave bad reviews to the film for this reason, resulting in a deep core of "Rabbit Violence" with only 6.3 points. Creators should reflect on this.